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DISPENSING APPARATUS FOR SODA AND MINERAL WATERS. No. 360,221. Patented Mar. 29, 1887.

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GEORGE A. HEARN, JR, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

DISPEN$RNG APPARATUS FOR SODA AND MINERAL WATERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,221, dated March 29, 1887.

Application filed September 11, 1885. Serial No. 213,314. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. HEARN, Jr., of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Dispensing Apparatus for Soda and Mineral \Vaters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to apparatus for dispensing soda and mineral waters, and has for its object to improve the construction of such apparatus by combining within a suitable decorative counter, (which in itself constitutes a refrigerator,) below the top thereof, the necessary coils, connections, ice and sirup jars, also including with the same an ornamental receptacle for ice-cream and means for keeping the same frozen, only the water-discharging faucets being'in line of sight above the counter, the sirups for mixing with said sodawater being handily drawn from self-measuring distributers situated at the rear below the upper surface of said counter, and kept at a low point of temperature by their position in said refrigerator, and also by ice stored in a chamber above the counter.

My invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a rear elevation of my apparatus; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section; and Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section at one end thereof, illustrating the position of the tank containing the ice-cream compartment and its accompanying compartment for ice. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section through the counter and floor beneath the same, and Fig. 5 is a plan view with the upper refrigeratingchamber and top removed. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal Vertical section through a sirup-jar and attached sirup-dispenser. Fig. 7 is a plan View of the same, and Fig. 8 an end View thereof. Figs. 9 and 10 are transverse vertical sections through the said sirup-jars and attached sirupdispensers, Fig. 9 being in position to discharge and Fig. 10 to receive the sirup.

Heretofore in the construction of a combined counter and apparatus for dispensing soda and mineral waters large monumental structures have been erected upon the counter to tower far above the same, wherein is stored the ice, sirups, coils, and various articles generally used in connection with such apparatus. These huge piles tend to greatly obstruct the view in a place of business, especially where two or more apparatus are employed, not only pre venting the display of articles in other parts of the store being seen, but also as a rule preventing the salesmen from noticing and administering to the wants of purchasers with that degree of celerity attainable where the customer and operator are brought face to face at and over a Hat regular counter. To obviate these and other obvious objections, I construct one or more counters of a convenient height to accommodate within and beneath the same all that is usually placed in the aforesaid rnonumental structure above the counter. Each counter 1 is provided with the custon1- ary decorative front and a flat upper surface upon each side of a central slightly-elevated refrigerating-ehamber, 2, the purpose of which will be hereinafter described. Upon this elevated refrigerating-charmber can be mounted any desired number of dispensing-faucets, 3.

The interior of the counter l is purposed to constitute a large refrigerating chamber, 4., and to that end is fitted with additional spaced front, side, and rear walls 5, provided with a metal inside covering, 6; or the said chamber may be, if desired, lined with marble, stone, or equivalent material without departing from the spirit of my invention. The continuous space 7, intervening between the outer walls of the counter and the said additional inner walls thereof, is adapted to be filled with sawdust, charcoal, felt, or other non-conductive material, to protect the same from outside atmospheric influences.

The bottom 8 of the refrigerating-chamber 4 is lined, also,with a covering, 6, of metal, marble, or other stone, as aforesaid; but an additional inner spaced bottom is, however, not employed, as where the bottom of said chamber 4 rests upon the floor I provide the space from ceiling to floor, between the beams, with a partition, 9, dividing the samethereby into ILO upper and lower spaces, '10 and 11, which spaces are packed with non-conductive material, and are utilized with respect to the said bottom 8 for the same purpose as thesaid inner spaces are with respect to the sides of refrigerating-chamber 4. In the drawings the spaces both above and below the partition 9, as shown, are packed with said non-conductive material. It is only necessary, however, to treat in this manner the spaces 10, between the partition andthe floor, unless the situation is such as that extra care should be taken to preserve the refrigerating qualities of said chamber 4.

-Within the refrigeratingchamber 4, which is adapted to be packed with ice, or ice and salt, entered at the rear through the doors 12, (shown in Fig. 1,) coils 13, of any desired style, may be placed, the number being equal to the number of dispensing-faucets employed. The said coils are connected to their respective faucets 3, as shown in Fig. 4, and to soda or mineral fountains in the cellar-room beneath, or other desired location, by the conductingpipes 63 64, the connections thereto being made in the usual manner.

The water contained in the refrigeratingchamber 4, the result of melted ice, is conducted therefrom through the medium of a stand-pipe, 14, detachably connected to a discharge-pipe, 15, which, entering the said chamber flush with the floor thereof, is connected below the same to the most convenient sewer or drain.

To therightof the top ofrefrigeratingchamher 4 is formed a tank, 16, which, extending from the top surface of the counter 1, transversely the same, down'vertically within the main refrigerating-chamber 4, is held in position therein by brackets 17, fastened to the inner end wall 5. This tank 16 is divided at the center transversely by means of a perforated partition, 18, into two compartments, 19 and 20. The one compartment 20 is purposed to hold ice, with or without salt, the other, 19, to hold a vessel containing ice-cream, which is kept in a frozen state (without thesurrounding inconvenient chopped ice) by the frigid air admitted from the adjoining ice-compartment, 20, through the perforations of the partition 18. The water from theice-oompartment passes through the lower perforations of the partition 18 into the ice-cream compartment,

and is conveyed from thenceinto the overflow stand-pipe 14, in the bottom of the main refrigerator 4, through the connecting flexible tube 21.

The tank 16, which is situated transversely the counter, as stated, centrally between the front and rear sides thereof, is provided with airtight lids 22 and 23 (which I usually silverplate inside and out) over compartments 19 and 20, the said lids being hinged preferably to the perforated partition 18 at the top thereof, to project slightly above the upper surface of the counter or flush therewith, as desired. The entire inner surface of the ice-cream compartment can be, if desired, and preferably is, also silver-plated.

A corrugated pan, 24, made of galvanized iron, copper, or other suitable material, provided with upturned sides about one inch high, slightly depressed in the center to facilitate cleaning, and having suitable water-tight openings therein for the passage of the conducting-pipes 63, is extended longitudinally the counter 1,below the top thereof, within the main refrigerator-chamber 4, to be secured at one end to the upper side of the tank or top of the counter, and at the other to the inner end wall of the said refrigerating-chamber 4.

To the under side of the corrugated pan 24, upon each side..of the center thereof, a series of T-shaped pendent supports, 25, of iron or any equivalent material, are attached, adapted to receive the sirup-jars 26, hereinafter de scribed.

The central top refrigeratingrchamber, 2, is constructed with side lugs, 27 integral therewith, adapted to rest upon and be supported by the marble or slate slabs 28, forming the top of counter 1, and is also provided with an angular recess, 30, in the under side at the back, to rest upon the surface of the counter at this point as an additional support thereof.

The said top refrigerating-chantber, 2, is made without a bottom from the vertical wall of said recess 30 to the front of thecasing, and is provided with an opening in its upper surface fitted with a suitable silver-plated cover, 29, through which ice and salt is packed in the interior of the chamber to rest upon that portion of the corrugated pan 24 beneath it. As the ice melts in the chamber 2, the cold water is dis-' tributed over the surface of the corrugated pan 24,which is situated, as heretofore stated, immediately over the sirup-jars 26, thereby keeping the said sirup-jars cool upon the upper surface thereof, while their under surfaces are exposed to the cold air in the main refrigcrating-chamber 4.

A stand-pipe, 65, about three-quarters of an inch high, is located at the end of the corrugated pan 24 next the tank 16, into which the surplus water flows, to be conducted by suitable means into the ice-cream compartment 19 of said tank 16, and from thence conducted to the stand-pipe 14, located in the main refrigerating-chamber 4, in the manner as heretofore stated.

A bracket, 31, is attached longitudinally to the outer face of the doors 12, situated at the rear of the counter 1, at such an elevation thereon as to accommodatea tumbler adapted to receive sirup from the sirup-dispensers 32, attached to and acting in connection with the sirup-jars 26, which sirup-dispenser will be hereinafter fully described.

The sirup-jars 26, made of hard rubber,metal, glass, or other suitable material and held in position within the refrigerating-chamber 4, beneath the upper surface of the counter, are usually constructed square and of a length greater than the inside width of said chamber 4, to project therefrom at the rear,and are provided with an opening in the upper surface of this projecting portion, having a suitable lid, 33, adapted to fit the same loosely or contain a series of minute perforations to admit air within the same. I

The bottom of the projecting portion of the jars 26 isprovidcd with an opening surrounded by a tube, 34,which extends upward vertically within said jars to near the top thereof, to form an air-vent, and another opening, 35, constituting a sirup-outlet, is made the ein near the extreme projecting end thereof.

The sirup-dispenser 32, which is usuallyprovided with an outer casing, 36, made cylindrical in form, having a flat upper surface, 37, integral therewith, is attached to the under surface of the projecting portion of the jar 26 through the said flat upper surface of said easing. The cylindrical casing 36 is provided with openings 38 and 39 in its flat upper sur face, 37, adapted to register, respectively,with the air-vent 34 and sirup-outlet S5 of the said sirup-jar 26, and an opening, 40, in its under cylindrical surface in line with the opening 39, through which the sirup is adapted to be discharged in a tumbler placed beneath it, as shown in Fig. 2.

A cylinder, 41, provided with a stem, 42, and crank 43, is held to revolve within the outer casing of the sirup-dispenser 32 by a cap, 44, screwed to the outer end of the said casing 36. The outer end of the cylinder 41 is provided with the receiving and discharge apertures 45 and 46 in the plane of the apertures 39 and 40, and the other end with ventapertures 47 and 48 in the plane of aperture 3:5, the apertures 45 and 46 being arranged onequarter of the circumference of the cylinder in advance of the apertures 47 and 48, so that the apertures 45 and 48 are in line, in order that by turning the cylinder so that the apertures 48 and 38 are in register, as shown partly in Fig. 10, and also 45 and 39 in register, the sirup will flow through the aperture 45 into the chamber.

By turning the cylinder one quarter revolution downward to the position shown in Fig. 6 and partly in Fig. 9, the ventapertures 47 and 38 register, and also the outlet-apertures 46 and 40. Then in this position the sirup is discharged from the cylinder, which is made to hold about sufficient sirup for sweetening one tumbler of soda-water, through the apertures 40 and 46. Air is supplied to promote the flow in both cases through the vent-tube 34 of the sirup-jars 26. The revolution of the cylinder in either case is regulated by means of a stop-pin having play in a slot cut in the edge of the casing under the cap thereof onequarter its circumference.

The apparatus, being below the lineof sight, offers no obstruction to the view, and as the apparatus combines both counter and refrigerator for water and sirups great economy of customers without turning to draw water or sirup, and can serve in less time and is less liable to error in serving than would be the case were the apparatus behind or in front extending above him.

The sirnpjars and dispensers are out of sight, being placed, as described, behind the refrigerator and below the top line of the counter. The said counter, therefore, does not become smeared by the drip from said sirup jars and dispensers. Again, the sirup-jars, being sup ported on sliding ways, are handy to the operator and easily filled and cleansed. The top of the ice-cream tank and the sides thereof, being silver-plated, are not only more conveniently kept clean, but the attractiveness of the same tends to produce an appetizing and pleasing effect.

The main refrigerating-charnber of my apparatus, constructed as described, is more easy of access, more conveniently filled with ice, more readily cleansed, and is capable of holding a much largcrquantity of ice than that of any apparatus now in use, all of which are most desirable features.

The ice cream now generally used in connection with soda-water is usually kept in a freezer below the counter on the floor. Placing the icecreani within the counter-refrigerator, (access being bad thereto from the top of said counter,) as in my construction, is not only more convenient, but adds to the attractiveness of the sodawater apparatus.

I am aware it is not new to construct a counter with a storage and refrigerating chamber beneath the same, and also to provide within the refrigeratingchamber so constructed sirup-jars and self-measuring faucets, and I do not claim such as my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- l. The combination, with a counter and dispensing-faucets on the same, of a combined storage and refrigerating chamber arranged below said counter, an upper auxiliary bottomless refrigerating-chainber supported centrally above the counter, penetrating the top thereof, the said auxiliary chamber provided with an upper liddcd aperture for filling the same, and a corrugated metal pan supported within the storage and refrigerating chamber at the top, immediately below the auxiliary chamber, adapted to sustain sirup-jars, substantially as herein set forth and described.

2. The combination, with a counter and dispensing-faucets on the same, a storage and re frigerating chamber arranged below said counter, and an upper auxiliary bottomless refrigeratingehaniber penetrating the top of said counter centrally of the same, of a corrugated metal pan intervening said interior and auxiliary chambers, provided with central watertight apertures, an overflow-pipe at one end thereof, and attached to its under side a sespace is had. Again, an operator can serve rics of vertically downwardly-projecting ways,

and rectangular sirup-jars held to slide in said ways, substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes herein set forth.

3. The combination, with a counter provided with a combined storage and refrigerating chamber arranged beneath said counter, a bottomless auxiliary refrigeratirig-chamber supported upon said counter centrally above the same, and a corrugated metal pan at the top of said storage and refrigerating chamber below the outer and auxiliary chamber, proranged in the same, provided with a combined storage and refrigerating chamber below said counter, a bottomless auxiliary refrigeratingchamber held centrally above said counter, and a corrugated metal pan provided with integral transverse ways upon its under side intervening the said interior and upper refrigerating-chamber, of a series of sirupjars supported in said ways from said pan, substaninterior and upper chamber, of a series of 45 sirup-j ars supported beneath said pan,adapted to extend beyond said counter at the rear, each jar having a vent and discharge opening in its under side, and a perforated lid upon the upper side thereof, a sirup-dispenser attached to the outer end of said sirup-jar, constructed with an outer casing having a vent-aperture and a receiving-aperture in the top centrally near each end, a discharge-aperture in the bottom in line with said receivingaperture, together with a-cylinder adapted to revolve therein, having two vent-apertures cut in the rear end thereof and a receiving and discharge aperture near its front end, the said receiving and discharge apertures being arranged in advance of said ventopenings to register with the apertures in said casing, all arranged to operate as herein set forth.

GEORGE A. HEARN, JR.

Witnesses:

J. F. AOKER, J r.., E. M. CLARK. 

